From: Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren@ge.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Fw: TFTP fails when using network switch
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:23:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <497713D9.7080705@ge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090120171443.2c55ee6b@uncle-pecos.Colorado.EDU>
Loren A. Linden Levy wrote:
> Hi Jerry,
>
> Your gonna love this. I was setting the hardware MAC address to be
> FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. When i changed this everything magically started
> working. I guess this MAC has some meaning like the device is a
> router. Anyway, i learned a lot while trying to figure this
> out. Thanks again!
>
> Alex
That is a multicast (broadcast) address (the bit 0x01 in the first octet
is set). Very wrong, as you now know.
<http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/EthernetDoesNotWork>
<http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/WhereCanIGetAValidMACAddress>
More detailed explanation:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address>
Best regards,
gvb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-21 12:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-06 0:02 [U-Boot] Fw: TFTP fails when using network switch Loren A. Linden Levy
2009-01-06 7:41 ` Remy Bohmer
2009-01-06 22:52 ` Ulf Samuelsson
2009-01-06 23:00 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-01-07 12:52 ` Jerry Van Baren
2009-01-07 14:03 ` Loren A. Linden Levy
2009-01-07 15:57 ` Swarthout Edward L
2009-01-07 18:02 ` Ben Warren
2009-01-07 18:23 ` Jerry Van Baren
2009-01-07 19:36 ` Ulf Samuelsson
2009-01-07 19:58 ` Jerry Van Baren
2009-01-16 0:36 ` L. A. Linden Levy
2009-01-16 15:34 ` Jerry Van Baren
2009-01-20 0:00 ` Loren A. Linden Levy
2009-01-20 1:14 ` Jerry Van Baren
2009-01-20 2:39 ` Loren A. Linden Levy
2009-01-20 16:55 ` Loren A. Linden Levy
2009-01-20 17:13 ` Jerry Van Baren
2009-01-21 0:14 ` Loren A. Linden Levy
2009-01-21 12:23 ` Jerry Van Baren [this message]
2009-01-06 12:45 ` Jerry Van Baren
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